Thursday, September 21, 2006

You may have noticed on the sidebar a sign-up form for "Romance: By the BookClub." Basically, you send me your name and email address, and I shoot you a quickie email once a week telling you what who's being interviewed and featured at Romance: B(u)y the Book," as well as who's GuestBlogging and what's happening at "Romance: By the Blog."

Join RBtheBookClub before Friday, Sept. 29th

and I'll enter you in a drawing towin an ARC of Eloisa James' "Pleasure for Pleasure."***

Today I'm guest blogging at "Romancing the Blog!"It's a very cool spot on the Inet for readers and writers to meet, and the best clearinghouse of blogsites dedicated to romance fiction. Hope you'll visit then come back again to chat.After you've visited, head back here as

"Back to School Week" wraps up tomorrow, Sept 22

with Princeton prof Bill Gleason!

He's one of the nicest guys I know, and a great fave of his students. That's what he tells me, anyway.

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Encore! Molto grazie, Eloisa James, for visiting yesterday! We look forward to your visiting in November to talk "Pleasure for Pleasure."

25 comments:

Well, Michelle - Anytime you want to deliver Becks to me, you should! All he needs is a shiny red ribbon wrapped around his...

Seriously! What's everyone reading? I've been on a Linda Howard kick, yesterday read KILL AND TELL. Features a trademark LH hero -- southern cop, very alpha, but totally a gentleman. He's a delight to read about as he maneuvers our very closed off heroine out of her panties. SIGH. I want one just like him. I've moved on to my favorite LH ever, DREAM MAN. Hero's another cop, but he's a mess. Heroine is a psychic. It's a fantastic story and I simply adore how he loves her.

I'm reading Christina Dodd's TROUBLE IN HIGH HEELS. And next will be that Chesapeake Bay trilogy plus one (what DO you call a series of 4 books? And I call myself a writer. Hmpf!). And in the meantime I'm working on my next short story since the editor wanted stories set in Texas and I had an idea that might work.

I love Linda's books. Haven't read them all yet. I stumbled onto a good deal (read "steal") on her most recent, COVER OF NIGHT, a few days ago. She's such a neat lady too. She's in my RWA chapter and always ready to encourage.

Jules - I don't know what's up with me, but lately, I'm not looking for heartwarming, I'm looking for some hot monkey sex (in my reading, of course! Well, IRL too, but I digress). Thus, my LH kick. She writes some d*mn good sex! I love that about her!

Every now and then I like to switch things up. If I'm reading historical I'll go comtemp. If I'm doing comtempt I'll go para.THE PRODIGAL'S RETURN was an unexpected change up. I can't tell you the last *true* heart warming book I've read. It was really good.

But if you are looking for hot monkey sex, it's not the book for you. I'd suggest a reread of BDB... :P

Morning, Bellas! Hey, awesome news, Vivs! I like the Next line. Too bad we can't get traditional romance taken seriously. But you're right; any exposure like that so adds to the street cred.

Have you checked out RomancingTheBlog.com yet? Guess things are getting stirred up. It's funny how easy it is to get folks going, and how quickly we assume we know what everyone else is all about.

Jules, nudging, nudging, always nugding... :)

Marilyn, I don't know. A Quad? A foursome? Oh. That sounds like a Vivi fantasy. Or my Regency carriage fantasy. Did I ever mention that one?

MK, I'm feeling the heartwarming love, lately. I think I was reading so much hot and erotica for a while, I needed a minute or two of a break. I've also just realized I backed myself into a wall, and have to scramble to hook up some interviews for this month. I'm way behind.

And Becks. I wasn't really into him when he was younger, but now he's looking nice and gritty. Have you seen his Got Milk ads?

Oh, and in this weeks RBtheBook feature, "Swept Away," the hero has a really sexy tat, and Toni Blake just gave me a link to the guy who inspired it. The guy has some rather impressive attributes.

http://www.beaty625.com/fire/fire.html

ev, sorry you couldn't hang yesterday. You were missed. Will you hang tomorrow, too?

A romance book, Peggy Webb's Flying Lesson, a Harlequin NEXT, is being considered for a Pulitzer Prize in fiction!

Actually it's her book DRIVING ME CRAZY that's up for Pulitzer consideration. Peggy's in my RWA chapter too and we celebrated this accomplishment at our workshop earlier this month. The book deals with the subject of aging in America, which is a huge topic now. But FLYING LESSONS is good too -- about a 50-ish year old woman with an empty nest. Hmmm... sounds like my life. *g*

Michelle - I ran by the Romancing the Blog, and saw that you had your pot-stirring spoon out. I just didn't have time to comment. I will jump over there and do so.

I'm definitely feeling the hot monkey sex lately. Why is that? I'm not sure. Not erotica, per se. Although I did just finish Kate Douglas' WOLF TALES II. Yowza! Scorching! But I'm loving LH's books right now. I'm glad the end of the month is coming and we'll be getting some new books. I didn't pick up very many in August, so I feel like I've just been re-reading over and over.

I was reading an ARC of a Shirly Jump category called "Saved By Mr. Right," which is really sweet and set in Quincy, MA. I'm kinda digging it. I also re-read Betina Krahn's True Desires.

OH! Oh! And, you guys, I finally read SEP! Match Me If You Can. Old Flame this week. Then I read Nobody's Baby But Mine. I cant' wait for her new one coming in 07!

And I just finished Suzanne Brockmann's Into the Storm, which I'll write up next week. Gesu! It was unbelievably good. Who was it who dated the SEAL? Was in MK or Rach or Stace? Anyway, the hero reminded me of that story.

Thanks for dropping by RtB, MK. This is the kind of thing that always gives me agita (or aceta, which is the proper spellling, so says my fil).

Anyway, I give an opinion, use classic terminology which covers a generalization, then folks get put off. Anyway, the Pollyanna in me wants to be all: wait, this is why I used these words, so it would sound this way and have this flavor. Then I have to say, wait a minute. They asked me to give my opinion, just like I get paid to do.

Then the me inside says, goody! I got people thinking and they haven't figured it out yet!

Michelle - It was me who dated the SEAL. SIGH. Good times. Very good times. I mean, he was a horrible boyfriend, but one of those guys who gets a double take from women on the street. I remember my mother's jaw actually dropping when she met him. I still have my SEAL Team 8 t-shirt. He was a lot more like Wild Card than like Jenks in the series. He was a bit of a loose cannon.

Yes Michelle, I noticed that the commenters at RtB seemed to take what you had to say out of context, but I guess since I know you, I understood what you meant.

Of course, Jules. You are nothing if not a giver. Always giving, never taking.

So, I had to pick up my kids at school early cause my son is sick and will cough on cue to prove it. I took them for a bite after and started to talk to them about spring break next year, saying that "daddy" wants to go to Jamaica again.

My son is all like, yeah! I don't even mind having to get up at 3.am again.

I say, you guys did such a great job with that.

My sweet little angel-faced 7-year-old daughter shakes her head and says, "yeah, but I was SO freakin' tired the rest of the day."

Man. I work 9 long years not to swear around my kids. Obviously she heard one of us say it a some point. I'm more fond of flippin or frikkin, but I try never to say it around them. Clearly we goofed.

Which is not to say I don't adore saying f*ck whenever possible. I do. And I love when other adults use it in myriad creative ways.

And I also think it sounds quite sexy falling from the right lips at the right moments.

That's all's I'm sayin.

Oh, I will share that if he's got a British accent, more's the better.

But what are the chances of Ralph Feinnes and I ever falling into a sitch like that? Unless it's like, "Michelle, would you f*cking stop stalking me?"

Michelle, I recently finished Match Me if you Can, also. I thought it was very fun.

Other recent reads for me: Morrigan's Cross by Nora Roberts - thought it was great, but I'm REALLY looking forward to the book with Cian as the hero! Also, Charming Jo by Laura Drewry - great read. I was in the mood for a western.

I hope this message actually posts... Blogger has been very nasty to me lately, probably because I work on an ancient MAC with incompatible programs, LOL!

TROUBLE is my first book by Christina Dodd so I have no point of comparison to anything else, but I'm enjoying it. I'm maybe halfway in. Love the set-up. It's contemp enough but not so "hip" that an old broad like me misses all the inside jokes and references.